Along the bank of the Don, here and there you can see white cliffs that slope down to the water . This amazing landscape can be admired in different riverine towns, including Belgorod, located just 40 km from the border with Ukraine on the Seversky Donets - tributary of the Don . The first settlements on the site of the present "City on the white mountains" arose in the Xth century, and in XVI a fortress was built here to defend the borders of the Moscow kingdom from the Crimean Tatars . Now Belgorod is a peaceful and developed city, welcoming guests from different cities and state it is good to show it .

Content 1 How to get to Belgorod 1.1 Search for air tickets to Belgorod 2 Belgorod's climate 3 Belgorod cuisine and restaurants 4 Belgorod's entertainment, excursions and sights 4.1

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How to get to Belgorod

Search for air tickets to Belgorod

By train you can get from Moscow ( the journey time is 10-12 hours, the ticket price is 1310-2881 rubles depending on the class of the car), St. Petersburg (from 18 to 23 hours on the way, 1506 to 3345 rubles), Kislovodsk (25 hours on the road, 2,999-3,800 rubles ticket), Perm, Vorkuta and other cities of the Russian Federation.

 The bus connection with Belgorod is also established, both suburban and intercity, and international. The bus station of the city (avenue B. Khmelnitskogo, 160) receives daily flights from Moscow, Smolensk, Lipetsk, Astrakhan, Voronezh (Russia), as well as Kiev, Sumy, Kharkov (Ukraine) and Chisinau (Moldova). for May 2011. 

Belgorod Climate

March 1, Sunday Clearly + 4 ° С in the afternoon - 1 ° C at night ° C water	March 2, Monday Overcast + 3 ° С in the afternoon - 5 ° С at night ° С water	March 3, Tuesday Cloudy with a light rain + 5 ° С in the afternoon 0 ° C at night ° C water
Belgorod weather forecast for 10 days

Cuisine and restaurants of Belgorod

We hasten to please the fans of hamburgers and cheeseburgers: in the city there is McDonalds (st .Shchorsa, 64) .For car enthusiasts, the McAvto system works around the clock .And in general, no one will remain hungry in Belgorod .For Chinese food lovers, there is an excellent cafe "Harbin" (ul .Koneva 2a and ul .Student, 17c), where cooks are cooked from China .Fans of Italian cuisine can be recommended "Italiano" (Narodny Boulevard, 32 and ul .Yesenin, 12a), Forno a Legna (st .Sadovaya, 2a), Soprano (st .Kostyukova, 14) and the Potapich pizzeria (they are, however, somewhat closer to fast food) .In the "Dudu Kebab House" (st .Queen, 9a) you can try Turkish dishes, but please note: the institution smokes .Ukrainian cuisine is represented by the restaurant "Kazachok" (ul .Korolev, 4), for the Russian and European "Europe" (pr .Vatutina, 2) .And there are still bars, for example, the "Soviet" "Patriot" (pr .Civil, 2), Irish pub on the street .Michurina, 79, coffee houses: "CoffeeTime" (per .1st Factory, 29), Coffee Bean (ul .Victory, 77), "CoffeeMon" (st .Korolev, 4b), "Baristo" (st .Prince Trubetskoi, 17) and numerous cafes, including children's "Snow White" (st .50th anniversary of the Belgorod Region, 14) .

Entertainment, excursions and sights of Belgorod

Fans of urban sculpture and ancient temples in Belgorod should like .Bronze sculptures in the growth of man here are quite often .Walking along cozy streets, you will be able to meet students who are always reading the abstract while sitting on a bench, a girl blowing bubbles (they obviously just flew away!), A janitor with a cat and a granny with knitting .There are also monuments of traditional, established in honor of outstanding personalities, and very original .For example, not far from the Central Market there is a monument to shuttles, not boats, and merchants .At the intersection of ul .Popov and Frunze there is a monument to an honest traffic cop .Not a mythical character, and most that neither is a real local resident, of whom you will be pleased to tell more than one story .

Most of the preserved historical buildings and temples of Belgorod belong to the XIX century, but there are older buildings .For example, Uspensko-Nikolaevsky (XVII century) and Pokrovsky (XVIII century) cathedrals in the territory of the Marfo-Mariinsky women's monastery, the Smolensk cathedral, the St. Nicholas cathedral .Many beautiful city churches, such as the temple of Archangel Gabriel, the temple of St. Sergius of Radonezh and others were erected very recently .Some of the old buildings are now dedicated to the needs of the community .In the house and printing house of the XIX century, now the regional culture department, and in the former home of merchant Selivanov (st .Preobrazhenskaya, 38) is located museums, literary and energy .In addition to them, the city has art and local history museums, museums of communication and culture, and at .Popova, 2 diorama of the Battle of Kursk, Belgorod direction .Do not spare 39 rubles for an adult ticket and 20 for school (foreign citizens pay 65) to get acquainted with it .But in the ice cream museum at the local ice cream factory, only schoolchildren of the city and the region are taken .

The cost is indicated for May 2011. 

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